For getting the word of the day from dictionary.com and displaying it nice and pretty.

wordoftheday.php

<?php
            // adapted from http://bavotasan.com/2010/display-rss-feed-with-php/
            
            $rss = new DOMDocument();
            $rss->load('http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/wotd.rss'); // calling dictionary.com
            $feed = array();
            foreach ($rss->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) {
                $item = array ( 
                    'title' => $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue,
                    'desc' => $node->getElementsByTagName('description')->item(0)->nodeValue,
                    'link' => $node->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0)->nodeValue
                );
                array_push($feed, $item);
            }
            
            $limit = 1;
            
            if ($feed == null) echo "An error occurred when the robot tried to get the quote of the day.";
            else
            
            for ($x=0;$x<$limit;$x++) {
                // title
                $title = str_replace(' & ', ' &amp; ', $feed[$x]['title']);
                list($title) = explode(':', $title, 2); // remove colon
                $title = ucfirst($title); // capitalize first character
                
                // link
                $link = $feed[$x]['link'];
                
                // description
                $description = $feed[$x]['desc'];
                $description = strstr($description, ':'); // remove first word (title)
                $description= ltrim($description,': '); // trim first character and whitespace
                $description = ucfirst($description); // capitalize first letter
                
                echo '<p>Word of the Day: <strong><a href="'.$link.'" target="_blank" title="Dictionary.com Word of the Day">'.$title.'</a></strong><br />';
                echo '<p>'.$description.'</p>';
            }